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Wide receiver Kamar Aiken’s facing an uphill battle to stick on the Patriots roster. But battling is nothing new for this 24-year-old.

Today, Aiken talked about the emotional story surrounding his childhood. When he was just a child, Aiken and his siblings were taken from their mother and placed into foster care.

“I had a cousin that passed away from our babysitter because of a beating from our babysitter. And they basically put it on my mom and said it was her responsibility,” Aiken said. “So she ended up going to a federal prison for three years and they ended up taking us from here when she went in there for three years. But she was at work. She wasn’t at home at the time and they just held her accountable for it. Whatever the babysitter did, they held her accountable for it and that’s what happened.”

Aiken and his siblings (brother Leon Woodstock and sister Shakoiya Aiken) were returned to their mother, Juliet Wint, after three years. Now the wide receiver runs the “Kamar Aiken Foundation”, which helps foster children. He was signed to the Patriots’ practice squad last year after spending time with Buffalo and Chicago and has played three games total in his NFL career.